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...decorated member of the Marine Corps in its history, served in Vietnam as a Marine combat leader. Both his legs and part of his hands were blown off when he stepped on a booby trap. He lived, and he became an attorney at the Pentagon and a respected veterans activist. Then, in 1992, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography, Fortunate Son. Yet his life had recently come to seem barren. His marriage of 26 years was dissolving, and he suffered a serious relapse in his battle against alcoholism. Despondent beyond consolation, he picked up a gun and extinguished...
...recent years been an activist organization, serving as a leader among minority student groups. In the spring of 1992, the group distributed the "On the Harvard Plantation" flyer detailing charges of racism that shook the campus...
Powerful, complex, frightened -- all might fairly be applied to Streisand. She is the most popular and enduring pop singer of her generation; a filmmaker widely acknowledged to have more clout than any other woman in Hollywood; a political activist with the money to back her beliefs. Yet stories of her rampaging ego, of fights with co-stars and directors, of her obsessive perfectionism, are legion. More recently she has been knocked for being first among Hollywood's Clinton groupies. "On a clear day in Washington," a catty New York Times story put it, "you can see Barbra Streisand forever...
Streisand's friends also claim she has gotten a bum rap for her political activities. "I think she's a very, very serious person," says Larry Kramer, the AIDS activist who is working with Streisand on a screen version of his play The Normal Heart, which she will direct, produce and act in. "She's very interested in politics, she's very interested in the daily newspapers and journalism, and she's very interested in learning." Streisand fervently defends her attachment to the Clinton Administration during the Inaugural and after. "I think the press was jealous of the people...
Frustrated with the Administration's seeming indifference, 24 U.S. unions will call for a boycott of Haitian goods this week. At the Washington headquarters of TransAfrica, a group that lobbied successfully on behalf of the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa, activist Randall Robinson began the third week of a hunger strike to protest the U.S. policy of repatriating Haitian refugees. He saw nothing to please him about Clinton's Haiti stance. "The President is responsible for what constitutes a disaster in Haiti," he said. "The longer he waits, the more people...